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Trustee at Indigo Trust, CarnegieUK. Formerly Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.
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Crypto prices jump as Trump names tokens included in strategic reserve - on.ft.com/3XoyEam via @FT
Coincidentally, crypto had paid large sums into Trump's election coffees, and Trump has now declared #crypto a "critical industry".
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Assuming you're not making the case that this is just a crypto industry/crypto holder bailout (which, it is), presumably the idea is you see a plausible scenario where the USD is massively devalued. If that's the justification the admin has to make, economic crisis isn't a strong enough term
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Link to article
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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The Airplane classic "Looks like I picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue", especially in a work setting. Every year the proportion of people who know it falls, and the proportion who think I'm over sharing grows.
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I was just looking at my copy of No Minister (1981) which was superb contemporary history by Hugo Young and Ann Sloman
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the great engineering survives - also have a Quad 44/405-2 These are hooked up to some JR-150s
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The White House position is now that Russian state media breached the security of the Oval Office.
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Phony friendliness and behind-the-scenes treachery from Trump and Vance would have been much more dangerous to the cause of freedom in Ukraine than the self-exposure by both men.
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This really was brilliant from Keir Starmer.
Slapping down JD Vance quickly as he tried to spew total disinformation about free speech in UK.
If you kill the lie as soon as it takes its first breath, so much of the Trump/Vance/Musk operation crumbles.
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On today’s News Agents I said that the crunch point for Starmer to choose between Zelensky and Trump would come, despite the bonhomie yesterday. The choice came within 24 hours.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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"None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters,” or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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this is bad
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The US and US big tech are no longer our allies. They can’t be trusted.